Python is a powerful programming language. It is very friendly and easy to learn. At writing time of this article Python 3.7.3 latest stable version is available to download and install. This tutorial will help you to install Python 3.7.3 on your CentOS, Red Hat & Fedora operating systems.
Step 1 – Requirements
This Python installation required GCC compiler on your system. Login to your server using ssh or shell access. Now, use the following command to install prerequisites for Python before installing it.
yum install gcc openssl-devel bzip2-devel libffi-devel
Step 2 – Download Python 3.7
Download Python using the following command from the Python official site. You can also download the latest version in place of specified below.
cd /usr/src wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.7.3/Python-3.7.3.tgz
Now extract the downloaded package.
tar xzf Python-3.7.3.tgz
Step 3 – Install Python 3.7
Use below set of commands to compile Python source code on your system using altinstall.
cd Python-3.7.3 ./configure --enable-optimizations make altinstall
make altinstall is used to prevent replacing the default python binary file /usr/bin/python.
Now remove downloaded source archive file from your system
rm /usr/src/Python-3.7.3.tgz
Step 4 – Check Python Version
Check the latest version installed of python. Use command python3.7 instead of just python.
python3.7 -V Python 3.7.3
thank you
Thankyou for such a thoughtful setup, cleaning up tar files , non destructive alinstall, such a breath of fresh air compared to most articles these days that assume so much about your environment.
Thanks for the article, however under Centos 7 I got the following error:
pip is configured with locations that require TLS/SSL, however the ssl module in Python is not available.
libssl-dev has been already installed:
Package 1:openssl-devel-1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Thankyou.. It’s working
tk tcl tk-devel tcl-devel are needed if you want to import tkinter module
readline-devel is also needed for interactive shell’s normal behaviour.
this worked for me on centos7 thank you
hi，
I have a question.When I “make altbinstall”,
I can’t create the common file “/usr/local/bin/python3.7m”，because of the
limited authority，so recipe for target “altinstall” failed.What should I do next?
thank you very much.(Sorry,my English is poor,can you understand what I say?)
Hi – thank you for this article. I am getting the following error (similar to one above) when doing the make altinstall on centos 10
changing mode of /usr/local/bin/idle3.7 to 755
rm /usr/local/lib/python3.7/lib-dynload/_sysconfigdata_m_linux_x86_64-linux-gnu.py
rm -r /usr/local/lib/python3.7/lib-dynload/__pycache__
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./Misc/python.man \
/usr/local/share/man/man1/python3.7.1
if test “xupgrade” != “xno” ; then \
case upgrade in \
upgrade) ensurepip=”–altinstall –upgrade” ;; \
install|*) ensurepip=”–altinstall” ;; \
esac; \
./python -E -m ensurepip \
$ensurepip –root=/ ; \
fi
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/local/src/Python-3.7.2/Lib/runpy.py”, line 193, in _run_module_as_main
“__main__”, mod_spec)
File “/usr/local/src/Python-3.7.2/Lib/runpy.py”, line 85, in _run_code
exec(code, run_globals)
File “/usr/local/src/Python-3.7.2/Lib/ensurepip/__main__.py”, line 5, in
sys.exit(ensurepip._main())
File “/usr/local/src/Python-3.7.2/Lib/ensurepip/__init__.py”, line 204, in _main
default_pip=args.default_pip,
File “/usr/local/src/Python-3.7.2/Lib/ensurepip/__init__.py”, line 117, in _bootstrap
return _run_pip(args + [p[0] for p in _PROJECTS], additional_paths)
File “/usr/local/src/Python-3.7.2/Lib/ensurepip/__init__.py”, line 27, in _run_pip
import pip._internal
File “/tmp/tmpbm13jhp1/pip-18.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/_internal/__init__.py”, line 40, in
File “/tmp/tmpbm13jhp1/pip-18.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/_internal/cli/autocompletion.py”, line 8, in
File “/tmp/tmpbm13jhp1/pip-18.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/_internal/cli/main_parser.py”, line 12, in
File “/tmp/tmpbm13jhp1/pip-18.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/_internal/commands/__init__.py”, line 6, in
File “/tmp/tmpbm13jhp1/pip-18.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/_internal/commands/completion.py”, line 6, in
File “/tmp/tmpbm13jhp1/pip-18.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/_internal/cli/base_command.py”, line 18, in
File “/tmp/tmpbm13jhp1/pip-18.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/_internal/download.py”, line 38, in
File “/tmp/tmpbm13jhp1/pip-18.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/_internal/utils/glibc.py”, line 3, in
File “/usr/local/src/Python-3.7.2/Lib/ctypes/__init__.py”, line 7, in
from _ctypes import Union, Structure, Array
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘_ctypes’
make: *** [altinstall] Error 1
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I have tried the suggestion to do the “sudo yum install libffi-devel” but that did not make any difference.
Any suggestions to get past this error?
thank you
‘mark
Try to install following package:
Hi Rahul,
I have problem with installing packages wit pip inside an environment, i brief it as below:
I get this error while installing some packages with pip3 inside an environment
using centOS 7 with python 3.7.2 as parallel install.
step to reproduce: (dependancies are installed)
rm -rf /usr/local/lib/python3.7
cd /root/
wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.7.2/Python-3.7.2.tgz
tar -xzf Python-3.7.2.tgz
cd Python-3.7.2
./configure –prefix=/usr/local –enable-shared –enable-optimizations LDFLAGS=”-Wl,-rpath /usr/local/lib”
make
make altinstall
adduser a-user
su – a-user
/usr/local/lib/python3.7 -m venv user-envn
source user-envn/bin/activate
pi3 install –upgrade pip
pip install pyusb==1.0.0
result with error:
Collecting pyusb==1.0.0
Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/8a/19/66fb48a4905e472f5dfeda3a1bafac369fbf6d6fc5cf55b780864962652d/PyUSB-1.0.0.tar.gz
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
running egg_info
creating pip-egg-info/pyusb.egg-info
writing pip-egg-info/pyusb.egg-info/PKG-INFO
writing dependency_links to pip-egg-info/pyusb.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
writing top-level names to pip-egg-info/pyusb.egg-info/top_level.txt
writing manifest file ‘pip-egg-info/pyusb.egg-info/SOURCES.txt’
error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: ‘/usr/local/lib/python3.7/lib2to3/Grammar3.7.2.final.0.pickle’
would you please help what has caused this and how to resolve? Thanks
Add the follow steps for successful build.
Ubuntu :
sudo apt install libffi-dev
CentOS:
yum install libffi-devel
It’s neccessary for installing pip.
Thanks for this post
Thanks it helped!
how install python3.7 IDLE on RHEL 7.4
yum-builddep python36
Instalou sem erros, porem quando procuro na pasta bin junto com as outras versões não aparece.
E quando coloco python3.7 –version mostra como não instalado.
# python3.7 -V
bash: python3.7: not found
then
# whereis python
python: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/python2.7-futurize /usr/bin/python2.7-pasteurize /usr/lib/python2.7 /usr/lib64/python2.7 /etc/python /usr/local/bin/python3.7m /usr/local/bin/python3.7 /usr/local/bin/python3.7m-config /usr/local/lib/python3.7 /usr/include/python2.7 /usr/share/man/man1/python.1.gz /usr/src/Python-3.7.0/python
and move label to directory which you need like it
cp /usr/src/Python-3.7.0/python /usr/bin/python3.7
try yum install libffi-devel if you have Python3: ImportError: No module named ‘_ctypes’ when using Value from module multiprocessing
Thank you
You have to add following requirement too – yum install libffi-devel
And thanks for the article
Just thank you for useful article!